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German Interludes
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18098 |
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THE ARTS
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11 / 1990 |
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John Gohorry
John Gohorry is an internationally published British poet. |
On the Birkenkopf
For five years they steadily carried it up itself
with diggers, bulldozers, and mechanical shovels
--tipped it out by the bucketful, by the lorryload,
either side of the winding track way their huge wheels
Pressed out of the earthwork, compacting the uprise
with steamrollers, pneumatic hammers.
Millions of cubic meters of lintels, cornices, door-jambs
tumbles out in a cascade of thumping hydraulics
as the city cleared of its rubble, the trackway rose,
and saplings already took root in the lower slopes
of the conveyed mountain. We walk up to the summit
tonight, crossing through forty years' woodland--
shrubs sprawl in profusion, greenery hangs everywhere
over the weedy path, and the sun flames itself down
in magnificent splendour past Renningen; beacon lights
from the Fernsehturm, scour the hills rhythmically
and the winking city below us is dancing, suspended
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